/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6015474]

What's the best children's novel you've ever read? Pic related.

[Anonymous No.6015485]

Same here, loved the stuff. Guy's responsible for my love of food.

[Anonymous No.6015489]

Gregor the Overlander. By far still one of my favs

[Anonymous No.6015491]

erik the motherfucking viking

[Anonymous No.6015492]

>>6015474
Segaul Johnatan Livingstone and The Wild Horse

[Anonymous No.6015494]

fucking dandelion wine

all the books are p good. i personally really like lord brocktree.
as a young child the idea that an army of a million could be beaten by starving them out blew my fucking mind.

[Anonymous No.6015498]

I just noticed I've never read a children's book. My childhood reading was all nonfiction or adult literature.

[Anonymous No.6015508]

>>6015498
And I feel as though I'm missing out on a lot because of it. Should I read children's books now as an adult? I'm thinking I could pick up adult comic books like Watchmen, since it's basically the same tier as children's books.

[Anonymous No.6015511]

>>6015474

this book is beautiful

[Anonymous No.6015515]

>>6015508
there are a few out there that are worth your time. i work in a library and will pick one up every now and then; they're good for really bad days. finding stuff that isn't terrible is even harder, though

[Anonymous No.6015519]

>>6015515
Can you give some examples of good ones?

[Anonymous No.6015522]

>>6015511
and this one. if you want to raise a child who thinks about his life, give him these two books.

[Anonymous No.6015560]

>>6015474
Either The Twenty One Balloons or Hatchet.

[Anonymous No.6015573]

>>6015519
hmm, for more contemporary things:

leven thumps is actually well written (and probably obert skye's other stuff, though i've never looked into it)

garth nix is a terrible writer but has lots of good ideas, and he's gotten a little better over the years

kenneth oppel wrote some stories about bats that were interesting, and there were a couple of stories about airships that weren't too bad either

linda sue park is supposedly good, but i haven't read anything from her since i was tiny myself

cornelia funke made me feel nice, though it probably won't work for you if you're not a girl

these two are things:
>>6015522
>>6015511

and then there's the stuff everybody knows (madeleine l'engle, lloyd allexander, lois lowry, avi, roald dahl [the best thing he ever wrote was danny, the champion of the world"], e.l. konigsburg)

[Anonymous No.6015577]

>>6015573
oh, and yes to >>6015560 and The Twenty One Balloons

[Anonymous No.6015921]

>>6015474
that's a good one
these were good too

animorphs
magic treehouse
the hobbit
harry potter

[Anonymous No.6015932]

Brave Story, Miyuki Miyabe

[Anonymous No.6015947]

>>6015932
that art looks kind of cool
never heard of this book before

[Anonymous No.6015957]

Harry Potter is the only acceptable answer. Plebs.

[Anonymous No.6015975]

>>6015957
If Harry Potter is the best children's lit you've read you're the fuckin pleb

[Anonymous No.6015982]

There's a Monster At The End of This Book

spoiler: It's Grover

[Anonymous No.6015994]

>>6015947
See also The Book of Heroes and a novelisation of Ico, in case that's of interest.

[Anonymous No.6016049]

I am not sure if they qualify as children's books, but I loved the work of Shell Silverstein growing up.

[Anonymous No.6017769]

[Anonymous No.6017784]

pic related

[Anonymous No.6017795]

>>6015921

God, I autistically read through all the Animorphs multiple times. Loved them so much. Plus there's 54 books plus some extras, so its great if his school has an AR point thing like mine did.

Also Hobbit and LotR are excellant, obviously.